Ice Age fossils occur at many
localities in the Phoenix area. The museum excavations have included
the well known Gilbert Mammoth and many firsts for Maricopa County.
Firsts include: camels, the camel Camelops, the llama
Hemiauchenia, and the pronghorn Stockoceros.

Publications from Phoenix Basin Ice Age

2006

Robert McCord and Gavin McCullough. The
"Gilbert Mammoth" and Associated Fauna (abstract).
Proceedings of the Arizona Nevada Academy of Science 41:11.

Exposing the tusk of the "Gilbert Mammoth" in 2005.

The Gilbert Mammoth excavation crew attaches
a plank of wood to bolster a mammoth tusk.

Reconstruction of Columbian Mammoth.
Drawing by Gavin McCullough.

Reconstruction of the fossil camel Hemiauchenia.
Drawing by Gavin McCullough.